Tennessee 2025 season
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If she was just smoking on the street, sure. But she was driving right?? And it isn’t legal in Tennessee. And she just had a dv charge a couple months ago. So yea it should be
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Well, maybe.
DWI on marijuana is rarely charged unless a person has one burning in the ashtray, the cop can clearly smell it, the driver has been driving erratically, driver has red eyes and answers questions bizarrely. Even then, it’s hard to convict at trial because states don’t have equipment like breathalyzer to test them. Most cops are just gonna charge for possession.
Being charged with possession doesn’t prove or even legally imply DWI.
The question is whether a judge in Tennessee will revoke a pre trial sentence based on pot possession? In my experience some are and some are not. Country judges are city judges aren’t.
The real question is what the coach decides. Personally, I wouldn’t kick her off the team, but I would immediately suspend her (from even practice) until legal matters are resolved and might make it for the semester or maybe for the entire season.
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It's a tough call regardless which decision she made. Do not envy her one bit as they were looking at Whitethorn being a keep piece of this roster.
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I don’t think it was a tough call at all. Less than 2 months ago she was in trouble and surely warned that it couldn’t happen again.
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Yes, Coach Caldwell did the right thing. And Tennessee has plenty of quality depth in the backcourt, especially in Mia and Mya Pauldo
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Seems like a good move under the circumstances.
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It's always so sad to hear this type of news. I hope she realizes that if she puts in the work to overcome this situation, in a few years it will be a blip on the radar in the story of her life.
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You hate to see a player leave a program via transfer or in this case dismissal, but in the end this move was good for the program. They gave her an opportunity to improve. Hopefully Ms. Whitehorn learns from this and can bounce back. But good call by Coach. It is tough but this move had to be made.
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In thinking of the timing of her issues, perhaps she should have been suspended from the team indefinitely, given time to resolve whatever issues she was facing, and then be allowed to come back. IMHO, there seems to be underlying items that didn't go away after the first issue.
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When I first saw the news of the first arrest, my thought was that the coach/administration should have suspended Ruby for the year given the seriousness of the charges. I know that doesn’t really happen these days, but I thought it would have been the right decision. She needed a serious reset and a suspension would have provided time and space for it to happen.
It isn’t surprising to me how this played out. Hopefully, she will be able to finish her degree somewhere and figure out if basketball should be part of her future.
A lot of the commentary on social media has been pretty harsh. Honestly, I can’t imagine the external pressures that are on a young woman star athlete, and with NIL money. They are the first generation to have these risks and rewards. It’s almost impossible to know who is a true friend and who’s just using you. Some will handle it better than others and things are bound to go wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I know she made her own decisions and that they were bad ones. It’s just that when I look at it in terms of the bigger picture, I feel for kids who don’t have strong social supports and are finding their way.
EDIT: I started typing this comment out last night, and I’ve reworked it about 15 times so as to strike the right note and not come off as being judgmental. It’s so hard to say what you really mean sometimes without worry about offending someone.
It isn’t surprising to me how this played out. Hopefully, she will be able to finish her degree somewhere and figure out if basketball should be part of her future.
A lot of the commentary on social media has been pretty harsh. Honestly, I can’t imagine the external pressures that are on a young woman star athlete, and with NIL money. They are the first generation to have these risks and rewards. It’s almost impossible to know who is a true friend and who’s just using you. Some will handle it better than others and things are bound to go wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I know she made her own decisions and that they were bad ones. It’s just that when I look at it in terms of the bigger picture, I feel for kids who don’t have strong social supports and are finding their way.
EDIT: I started typing this comment out last night, and I’ve reworked it about 15 times so as to strike the right note and not come off as being judgmental. It’s so hard to say what you really mean sometimes without worry about offending someone.